Boating Breathed

NAMES AND FACES

August 9, 1989

PULITZER PRIZE-winning cartoonist Berke Breathed, whose last Bloom County comic strips appeared in newspapers last weekend, will be a contributing editor at Boating magazine, the magazine announced Tuesday. John Owens, editor-in-chief of Boating, said in a statement from New York that Breathed, an avid boater who has homes in Colorado and Florida, will write a monthly humor column titled Overboard. Breathed, who owns four boats, said his column will reflect his consuming interest in the sport. ''Boating looks at equipment in the way I want to look at equipment - what's coming out, and why we silly boaters think that a new-style helm station is exciting,'' he said in the statement. Breathed discontinued Bloom County, which featured Opus the penguin, to begin work on a new strip called Outland that will begin appearing Sept. 3. Outland features a black ghetto child who was a Bloom County regular, with Opus possibly making appearances. Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning in 1987.